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Department of Business Administration

Innovative Pedagogical Tools


Simulations Used


 

Sl No.

AY

Course

Semester

Simulation Name

Objectives

1

2019-20

Service Operations Management

3

System Utilisation in Service Management

For instilling the fundamental concepts in OM and Little’s Law. It explains the repercussion of capacity utilisation on throughput time and Work In Progress under demand variability.

2

Production Planning & Inventory Control

3

Inventory Basics

This simulation helps students devising strategies to balance holding cost against ordering cost when avoiding a stockout.

3

Supply Chain & Logistics Management

4

Global Supply Chain Management

This simulation is used to teach intermediate to advanced concepts in SCM such as supply chain design, demand forecasting, resource allocation and production planning.

4

Entrepreneurship and Family Business Management

3

Honey Heritage

This simulation helps students to develop an understanding of the complexities in running family business. It is also helpful in understanding the basics of entrepreneurship as well.

5

Supply Chain Management and Logistics

4

Root Beer Game V2

This simulation reinforces the concept of ‘bullwhip’ effect in SCM. Here, students are required to design strategies that will help to minimise inventory carrying costs while avoiding costly inventory shortages.

6

Project Management

4

Scope, Resources, Schedule V2

This simulation presents various challenges before students in staffing, changes in the strategy by management while undertaking a project etc. Here, students are expected to come out with the best way out in an uncertain business environment.

7

2020-21

Lean Manufacturing

3

Push v/s Pull Production

This simulation deals with one of the key concepts in production planning and inventory control: Push and Pull. Students are exposed to the concepts of demand forecasting and meeting, inventory management and capacity utilisation.

8

Supply Chain and Logistics Management

3

Global Supply Chain Management Simulation V2

An updated version of Global Supply Chain Management Simulation.

9

Sales and Distribution Management

3

Managing Segments and Customers V3

This simulation revolves around a B2B firm and students are expected to devise a novel marketing strategy for a B2B firm and establish and maintain a competitive differentiation.

10

Banking and Financial Services Management

3

Banking Management

Dealing with different intricacies in the banking industry. Students are expected to analyse operational and financial key indicators.

11

Technology, Innovation, and Future of Work

4

Back Bay Battery V3

In this simulation, students are expected to apply their strategic innovation thinking so as to sustain the market leadership of a firm in an industry, which witnesses rapid technological advantages and fierce competition among the firms within the industry.

12

Project Management

4

Scope, Resources, Schedule V2

Already explained.

13

Strategic Management

4

Value Champion

This simulation helps to instil the concept of value chain framework in strategic management.

14

Corporate Restructuring Strategies

4

M & A in Wine Country V2

Here, students get acquainted with different complexities in the merger and acquisition process of firms, its valuation, response in the stock market at the time of an M&A etc.

15

Entrepreneurship and Family Business Management

4

Honey Heritage

Already explained.

16

Entrepreneurship and Family Business Management

3

Food Truck

This simulation leads students to the concepts of value of learning by doing, creation of prototypes, select the best at the time of a trade-off situation and willingness to fail.

17

 

Entrepreneurship and Family Business Management

3

Honey Heritage

Already explained.

18

2021-22

Services Marketing

3

Hotel Le Bonheur

 

19

Supply Chain and Logistics Management

3

Global Supply Chain Management Simulation V2

Already explained.

20

Management Information System

2

Cyber Attack!

 

21

Technology Innovation and Future of Work

4

Back Bay Battery

Already explained.

 


Co-teaching Initiatives


Sl No.

AY

Course Name

Semester

External Expert

Affiliation

1

2021-22

Sales and Distribution Management

3

Mr Vishnu G. S.

Area Sales Head, Loreal Paris

2

Corporate Restructuring Strategies

4

Dr Shikha Bhatia

Associate Professor, International Management Institute

3

2020-21

International Trade Policies and Practices

3

Mr Jintu Joseph

AGM, Plant Lipids Pvt Ltd

4

Insurance and Pension Funds

3

Mr Cheriyan V. A.

Cluster Manager – Training, PNB Met Life

5

Financial Market and Institutions

3

Mr Shreyas Rajan Nair

Kerala Head, HDFC AMC

 


Mock Courtroom (Legal Environment of Business – Semester 1)


This innovative initiative was applied in the course of Legal Environment of Business in Semester 1. Each group is assigned a well-established case law relevant to the provision of the Act in the Course Plan. The group members take up the specific roles from the case law and present the case as a roleplay in the class session. The group also uses PPT to demonstrate specific facts of the case. After the roleplay, the students raise questions or seek clarification from the presenting groups. The group is evaluated on the basis of Group Presentation rubrics. The benefit of this innovative method is that students get deeper insights about the provisions of the Act due to experiential learning.

 


 

 

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